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About Advance Directives
Advance directives are legal documents with instructions that apply if an adult is not able to make decisions about their own healthcare. They are meant to ensure that a person’s values related to dying, quality of life, and other relevant matters are honored.
Identify the most common types of advance directives and find out if a person has made them.
Explain how advance directives can improve quality of life, even at the end of life.
Care of Sexual and Gender Diverse Populations
All healthcare staff must be aware of the challenges that people in minority groups may experience. This includes knowing the effects of those challenges on how people seek and receive healthcare services. This course discusses sexual and gender minorities and their healthcare experiences.
Identify various terms used to describe sexual and gender minority populations.
Describe current health trends related to the sexual and gender minority population.
Choose best practices for improving the healthcare experience for sexual and gender minority populations.
Employee Wellness: Caregiving Side Effects
Caregiving demands a tremendous amount of compassion and empathy. While this can be incredibly rewarding, it can cause some adverse side effects. The goal of this course is to provide all staff with an overview of caregiving side effects.
Recognize the signs and symptoms of caregiver stress.
Apply practical methods to address the symptoms of caregiver stress.
Employee Wellness: Managing Stress
Stress is part of everyone’s life. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. A certain level of stress is healthy because it motivates you to be productive. However, too much stress can do the opposite, leaving you feeling drained and irritable. You can’t escape stress, but you can learn to respond to it differently.
The goal of this course is to teach employees how to identify triggers and develop a personal stress management plan.
Identify at least three common causes of stress in the workplace.
Describe at least two techniques to manage and decrease your own stress.
Health Disparities in the LGBTQIA+ Community
Healthcare practitioners greet, assess, screen, treat, and refer LGBTQIA+ individuals every day. Some may understand the unique needs of this population. However, more information and education are needed to ensure that people are represented in research and are treated with respect and dignity when receiving healthcare. This course discusses barriers LGBTQIA+ people face in accessing healthcare, along with the physical, mental, psychosocial, and cultural factors that affect their health. It provides practical strategies for providing sensitive, informed, and inclusive care. The goal of this course is to provide healthcare professionals with education on health disparities in the LGBTQIA+ community.
Recognize social determinants of health and health disparities among LGBTQIA+ populations.
Identify at least three barriers faced by LGBTQIA+ people in accessing healthcare.
Identify LGBTQIA+ health risk factors, including physical, mental, psychosocial, and cultural.
Recall strategies for providing sensitive and informed healthcare for the LGBTQIA+ community.
Recognize the lifespan health considerations of LGBTQIA+ individuals, including coming out and family systems.
Medical Record Documentation and Legal Information for CNAs
Documenting care is just as important as providing care. This course discusses the purpose of the medical record and documentation. It also describes documentation practices and legal standards that affect the certified nursing assistant.
This course provides direct care workers in post-acute care education on documentation and legal aspects of care.
Discuss the purpose of the medical record and documentation.
Identify at least two documentation practices used to avoid errors.
Explain the legal standards that affect the certified nursing assistant.
Nurse Self-Advocacy in Perilous Working Conditions
The nursing profession is fraught with anxiety and intimidation, which hinders the ability of nurses to assert themselves, voice their needs, and advocate for their patients. New or inexperienced nurses may encounter significant challenges related to their work environment and may need support and education to learn how to recognize unhealthy work environments and affect positive change.
The goal of this course is to teach new nurses how to recognize unhealthy work environments, as well as how to advocate for themselves and practice self-care.
Identify barriers to a healthy work environment and differentiate between different forms of violence.
Apply strategies to promote a healthy work environment.
Recognize signs of burnout and practical self-care strategies.
Quality Nursing Documentation in the Digital Age
This course reviews the concept of high-quality documentation and how it relates to technology and patient privacy. Most documentation takes place within electronic health records (EHRs) and healthcare professionals must understand how to practice high-quality documentation in the digital age. There are challenges with technology but also many exciting developments that can improve nurse documentation. This course reviews how healthcare professionals can reduce the risk of patient confidentiality breaches and cybercrimes.
Recall the criteria for high-quality documentation.
Describe technology’s impact on nursing documentation.
Identify privacy and security issues with documentation.
Self-Care Strategies for Frontline Professionals
Healthcare and behavioral health professionals providing services on the front lines of a sustained health crisis are exposed to traumatic events on a regular basis. Staff deemed essential have little escape from the grueling demands of their daily work. Professional self-care routines are often insufficient or seemingly impossible during times of heavy demand. Without healthy work-life balance, effective self-care practices, and social connection, maladaptive coping mechanisms may surface or return. Many professionals experience feelings of helplessness when, despite their best efforts, they are unable to provide clinical solutions for their clients or patients. Based on what is known about trauma, it is imperative for professionals to effectively address self-care needs in a timely manner, for themselves and for those they serve.
Define the psychological and biological effects associated with trauma and stress reactions.
Identify signs and symptoms of moral injury, vicarious trauma, secondary traumatic stress or compassion fatigue, and burnout.
Recall methods to enhance psychological resilience via self-care practices that can be applied to work and/or home.
Writing Incident Reports
Writing incident reports is an important part of providing direct support services. Your reports help the person's support team respond effectively to their needs and keep them safe in the future.
The goal of this course is to teach DSPs in IDD settings the key elements of an incident report, why they are important, and how to write them effectively.
Recall the purpose and key elements of an incident report.
Identify strategies used to document and report incidents effectively.
Differentiate between effective and ineffective incident reports.